....there you have it...the Z man was behind the curtain.
If Z-man can send such near-real time messages to a gang that was publicly provoking Musharraf from a place less than a mile from ISI HQ, then what does this tell us? At the very least, we should seek the handover of all ISI fellas “handling” the Ghazi brothers.
troops sent to Swat Valley 8-?
Damn, just damn... and Good huntin’!
More dead terrorists.
Here is the full story including what the Times left out
The former head of ISI Hamid Gul was and still is a dyed in the wool Islamist and advocate of disrupting Afghanistan, by backing the Taliban among other methods, as part of the broader campaign against India.
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003785515_pakistan12.html
Benazir Bhutto, the former prime minister and opposition leader expected by many to return from exile and join Musharraf in a power-sharing deal after year-end general elections, praised him for taking a tough line on the Red Mosque.
“I’m glad there was no cease-fire with the militants in the mosque because cease-fires simply embolden the militants,” she told Britain’s Sky TV on Tuesday. “There will be a backlash, but at some time we have to stop appeasing the militants.”
Pakistan’s mainstream, liberal newspapers also backed the assault, although ordinary citizens appeared less enthusiastic.
Several people interviewed by The Associated Press sympathized with some of the clerics’ professed goals, especially closing down alleged brothels in Pakistan’s relatively Westernized capital.
But they also criticized the mosque leaders’ increasingly aggressive anti-vice campaign, which included kidnapping alleged Chinese prostitutes, and their stockpiling of weapons and ammunition at the holy site and an adjoining madrassa, or religious school, for girls...
“Bin Laden’s deputy behind the Red Mosque bloodbath”
could be.........but it is for certain that ISLAM is behind it......and it is also certain that ISLAM is so twisted that it kills even muslims without hesitation to further its malignant aspirations.
ISLAM demands extermination by the civilized world. After 1400 years, you’d think that we will accommodate them.
There is a definite possibility of the Taliban and al Quaeda getting control of Pakistan.
Lest we forget, they don’t need to develop nukes. They already have them.
This could make Iran look easy by comparison.
—Maulana Fazlullah, a militant mullah—
O Lollobrigidah, your soup I diggidah,
and if there’a a jewel, it’s your pasta fazool...
(with apologies to Hanna-Barbera Inc.)
Maybe they’re losing their foothold in Iraq and are now forming up for the last stand in Pakistan. Gotem boxed in now.
Oh, and in the fwiw department, I think ol' Binny boy is still dead.
5.56mm
I know the driveby doesn't like it but the only time a war ends is when one side wins.
Might I suggest some above ground nuclear weapons testing in Wazirastan?
A couple of comments about the article: 1) Why did the authors not remind us that a madrassa is a religious school? 2) Why do they say the guy was disguised in a burqa instead of disguised as a woman?
Hmmmmmmmm
Previously...
http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2007/07/swat_joins_talibanis.php
“Swat joins Talibanistan”
By BILL ROGGIO
Jul 7, 2007
SNIPPET: “The TNSM is known as the “Pakistani Taliban” and is the group behind the ideological inspiration for the Afghan Taliban. The TNSM sent over 10,000 fighters into Afghanistan to fight U.S. forces during Operation Enduring Freedom in October 2001.”
SNIPPET: “Swat is clearly Taliban country.”